“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Sonia Orwell
Standard Name: Orwell, Sonia
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Jourdain had published a translation of Horace
's Odes in 1904 and the important History of English Secular Embroidery in 1910: in the latter year she also published almost sixty articles on a wide variety... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Orwell | During that same year GO
proposed marriage to Sonia Brownell
, editorial assistant on Horizon, who refused him. She accepted when he proposed again only months before his death, and they were married on... |
Friends, Associates | Ivy Compton-Burnett | After Jourdain's death, ICB
's circle of friends included George Furlong
, Rex Brandreth
, Barbara
and Walter Robinson
, Soame Jenyns
, Elizabeth Taylor
, Sonia Orwell
(widow of the writer George Orwell), Australian-born... |
Textual Production | George Orwell |
Timeline
1962
Publisher John Calder
and writer's widow Sonia Orwell
together organised at Edinburgh the first, highly successful Writers' Conference.